[CAVE, HENRY W.]. Picturesque Ceylon [Volume I: Colombo and the Kelani Valley; Volume II: Kandy and Peradeniya; Volume III: Nuwara Eliva and Adam's Peak]. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited, 1893-95.
FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes; author's presentation copy [volumes I & II bearing the author's presentation inscription on the front endpaper addressed to 'E. R. T. Croxall'; leather-bound; hardcovers; quartos (28.5 x 21.5 cm); pp. [8], 69; [4], [6], 91; [4], [6], 85. English text. Handsomely bound in publisher's original full leather gilt; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; 103 full-page plates with captioned tissue guards; decorative initials; tail-pieces; printed footnotes. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Downs Park Road, Hackney. Provenance: E. R. Tongue-Croxall's armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure. Covers rubbed to the spine ends and points. Interiors very well-preserved. Scarce thus.
